The Puritans further divided deliberate meditation into two categories: direct and reflexive meditation. Direct meditation is used to gain a better scriptural understanding of a topic, whereas reflexive meditation is employed to convict the heart about the application of the newly found understanding. As Henry Scudder explained, “The first [direct meditation] is an act of the contemplative part of the understanding; the second [reflexive meditation] is an act of conscience. The
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